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After Tanner's goal, the cheers grew louder. So did the taunts...
...assault on the Eisenhower-era vision of idyll--the staged version had to make are ignored here, as is the head-on assault on pop culture. Instead of consistency, Oz has subscribed to the youth comedy formula in force since The Blues Brothers: the bigger the blast, the louder the laughs...
Buswell is unaccustomed to choral singing, and he drowns out everybody else. A few singers simply stop in the middle of a hymn, overwhelmed. Barber glares. Privately, he tells Buswell that he is even louder than the organ -- to no avail. Finally, at a Sunday rehearsal, Barber dresses Buswell down: "Look, your pianissimo is not our pianissimo. Turn it way down." In the hallway afterward, Buswell, abashed, tells the other singers, "I guess I really blew it in there...
...because he had acted without the intent to kill. Even so, it added, negligent or intentional killing solely to protect property, "should never be tolerated." The grand jurors' decision was a locally popular one, but the mixed signals they sent had some people worried. "Their actions will probably speak louder than their words," says Criminal Justice Professor William Wilbanks, of Florida International University. "Most people are going to think the grand jury said that Rasheed did the right thing...
With each Dartmouth blow-out (the Green has dropped its last three contests by scores of 66-12, 45-0 and 48-7), the muttering in Hanover gets louder and louder...